in government health care. who gets covered, medicaid, medicare. i want to ask about a very sensitive part of health costs. one-third of u.s. health care spending is to take care of merneds in their last year of life. does that need to change? and how does government tackle something like that without the debate quickly turning into talk about government death panels and health-care rationing? >> we need to make a commitment to people on health care systems like medicare and medicaid that we will take care of them throughout their lives. and we will take care of them compassionately at the end of life. that's my commitment as united states senator. but in order to do that, the have to have a medicare and medicaid program that works for those individuals and is not just designed to pad the bottom lines of insurance companies. this is where linda mcmahon and i differ. i believe we have to make changes to medicare to save the program. we have to make it more efficient and cost-effective. we have to get the waste o